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...last point, however, is wide open to contention, making many business owners unhappy in a month that in San Diego, unlike Houston, typically brings our largest tourist traffic. The city has organized two meetings for hotel owners, restauranteurs and parking representatives to alleviate fears that money won't pour in. Worries and unanswered questions still abound. As one hotel manager said in reference to RNC preparations, "We're still being surprised. on a daily basis." About 80 percent of hotel rooms blocked off for the convention have been booked, but many hotels still harbor large vacancies or have...
...been stalling since early June, when Torrington, a tiny community with access to a bit of tourist-development money from the province, opened the Gopher Hole Museum. Extrapolating from the area's limited renown for an overabundance of gophers, whose destructive burrowing has always brought armed retaliation from local farmers, the museum used stuffed gophers to portray daily life in Torrington. "In 31 displays," according to the Associated Press, "54 gophers play hockey and Little League baseball, get a hairdo, preach a sermon, shoot pool in the local tavern...even rob a bank, with the teller told, 'Put your paws...
Cahaly's sells primarily Harvard accessories and gifts ("It's a tourist shop," Cahaly proudly said), but it has undergone several metamorphoses during its 41-year lifetime...
...once half-day walks, but he still manages to get around. Since a Pontiff's work is never done, he preached to the local flock last week, enjoining them to be inspired by the mountains "to establish a more respectful rapport with nature." In a line that the local tourist bureau may want to use, John Paul described the area as "the right place to relax...
...expected to generate millions of pounds--possibly as much as 90 million pounds--of garbage. To help keep Atlanta tidy and ecologically correct, the latest Use Less Stuff newsletter from the Partners for Environmental Progress--a Michigan-based coalition of business, consumer and government groups--offers a few tourist tips...